"This is a coup against
legitimacy. We call on all Egyptians to protest in all of Egypt's squares on
Friday," Sameh Ashour, head of the Egyptian Lawyers syndicate told a news
conference called with two of Morsi's prominent political opponents, Amr Moussa
and Mohamed ElBaradei.

Morsi, who was feted on the international stage for his key role in bringing
to an end the violence in Gaza, issued the decree on Thursday, which also
ordered the retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak and officials and security
force members accused of killing protesters during the country's revolution.
Although the ending of impunity for those who had committed crimes during the
ousting of Mubarak would be widely popular, opposition groups described other
new measures a as a power grab.
Presented as a move to "protect the revolution", the decree won immediate
praise from Morsi's allies but stoked fears among secular-minded Egyptians that
the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies aim to dominate the new Egypt......"